Los Gatos Property Management

We Can Help Manage Your Los Gatos Rental Property

We offer a full range of property management services tailored to you as an investor, homeowner, or
landlord. We have an extensive portfolio with over 300 single family homes, townhouses, condos, and
apartments in the Los Gatos area. "Full-Service" means we specialize in preparation, marketing, administration, and tenant retention.

What we do as your property manager:

Evaluate the Property and Determine a Rental Rate

Market the Property

Tenant Application

Move In

Rent collection

Annual and Safety Inspections

Accounting Services

Maintenance, and Upkeep

Move Out

Evaluate the Property and Determine a Rental Rate

Meet at the property, discuss goals, plans, etc. for the property and provide a possible rental rate

Offer recommendations on repairs and cosmetic improvements that maximize potential monthly rent while providing a good ROI

Discuss with owners the pros and cons of difference policies such as accepting pets, etc.

Install a lock box

Market the Property

Prepare home for rent

Clean home

Make sure the property is safe and maintained

Create ads tailored to the property and advertising in 50+ locations:

Paid and free rental listing websites

Print publications

Signs

Flyers and e-flyers

Advertise and work with local realtors

Partnered with Google, Apple, Ebay, etc. to insure access to high quality tenants

Provide easy to read monthly cash-flow statements which offer a detailed breakdown of income and itemized expenses

Maintenance, and Upkeep

Establish a preventative maintenance policy to identify and deal with repair needs

Provide an network of licensed, bonded and fully insured contractors who have been vetted for good pricing and good work that is up to code.

Assign jobs to different parties (in-house employees, handyman and professional contractors) based on who will do the best job for the best price.

Maintain and Provide Gardening Service (owners expense)

Landscaping

Maintain and monitor a 24 hour emergency repair hot-line

Larger renovation or rehab projects

Provide recommendations on how the project can maximize rental income.

Prepare preliminary cost estimates

Get multiple independent bids for the work

Act as general contractor overseeing the work

Move Out

Inspect unit and fill out a report on the property's condition when the client moves out

Provide tenant with a copy as well as estimated damages

Return the balance of the security deposit to the tenant

Forward any portion of the owner’s portion of the tenant deposit to the owner or hold in owner reserves for repairs.

Clean unit and perform and needed repairs or upgrades

Re-key the locks

Put the property back on the market for rent

Testimonials

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I only have high praises for Don. He is highly knowledgeable in rental and real estate properties. He was easy to work with. He went out of his way to help me with a rental property and anticipated all of my needs. I find him very efficient. He was easily accessible to work around my busy schedule.
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- Carl G | Client since 2005

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What I like about DWM Properties is they tend to stay on top of changing trends and technology. Most recently they teamed with a property management system to help them "Go Green". We are seeing this more and more with a number of companies in Silicon Valley and at DWM Properties not only are they saving resources we can actually see everything regarding our property on one page. The staff at DWM are very helpful and will keep me posted on all activity. I certainly would recommend them.
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- Craig H | Client since 2004

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Los Gatos Area Information

The town of Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 29,413 at the 2010 census. It is located in the San Francisco Los Gatos at the southwest corner of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Los Gatos is an established neighborhood in the Silicon Valley. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Los Gatos ranks 33rd in affluence in the United States.

The town's founding dates to the mid-1850s with the building of a flour operation, Forbes Mill, by James Alexander Forbes along Los Gatos Creek. The mill's two-story stone storage annex has been preserved as a museum just off of Main Street.

The settlement that was established in the 1860s was originally named for the mill, but the name was changed to Los Gatos after the Spanish land grant. The town was incorporated in 1887 and remained an important town for the logging industry in the Santa Cruz Mountains through the end of the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the town became a thriving agricultural town with apricots, grapes and prunes being grown in the area. By the 1920s, the Los Gatos area had a local reputation as an arts colony, attracting painters, musicians, writers, actors and their bohemian associates as residents over the years. The violinist Yehudi Menuhim lived there as a boy; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland (sisters) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath there (the location is now located in Monte Sereno), and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s. Along with much of the Santa Clara Valley, Los Gatos became a suburban community for San Jose beginning in the 1950s, and the town was mostly built-out by the 1920s.

Downtown Los Gatos has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings. Other notable buildings are the Forbes Mill annex, dating to 1880 and now housing a history museum; Los Gatos High School which dates from the 1920s; and the Old Town Shopping Center, formerly the University Avenue School (the school was established in 1882; the current buildings date to 1923).

A number of brick buildings in Downtown Los Gatos were destroyed or seriously damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, though the district was quickly rebuilt and has made a full recovery.

Recently the Main Street Bridge has emulated the Ponte des Artes bridge in Paris by displaying love locks for anniversaries and engagements.
Source: Wikipedia